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World Environment Day 2025: Tackling the Global Plastic Crisis to Regenerate Our Food Systems
29.05.25Photo credit: Calf with trash; Vrindavan, India. Apercoco Since 1974, World Environment Day has mobi…
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Food Policy Priorities for A Changing World
28.05.25IFPRI’s 2025 Global Food Policy Report reflects on 50 years of progress and examines priorities…
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Gaza’s worsening food crisis and troubled path to reconstruction
27.05.25By Sara Gustafson and Rob Vos May 27, 2025 As the Israel-Hamas conflict rages on in…
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AI sparks a new agricultural revolution in the Global South
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Big data
On a sunny April morning in Nairobi, the United Nations compound buzzed with more than…
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Empowering dryland communities through drought early warnings to enhance resilience
14.05.25<p>Amidst the challenges of drought, climate change, conflicts, and other shocks that signific…
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International Day for Biological Diversity 2025: Agrobiodiversity for People and Planet
13.05.25Photo credit: Investigación para Entorno Alimentario y Comportamiento del Consumidor. CIAT/Juan Pab…
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Historic wheat research station poised to host cutting-edge research
30.07.20It was the site where International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) scientist Norman Bor…
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Work to develop high yielding Striga tolerant maize seed is bearing fruit
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Food security
Striga, an invasive parasitic weed with purple-colored flowers, looks striking and harmless. But, be…
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Policy seminar: Europe’s Farm to Fork and Biodiversity Strategies aim to build healthy and sustainable food systems
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
By Khiem Nguyen The COVID-19 pandemic and its economic fallout have underlined the importance of…
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It is time to rethink Uganda’s policy approach to trees on farms
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Researchers call on the Government to promulgate the draft national agroforestry strategy to hasten …
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COVID-19 and food security | Limiting the impact of the crisis on rice value chains in West Africa
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Biodiversity
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Environmental health
Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, 30 July 2020 -- Rice plays a strategic role in food…
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Illuminating Hidden Harvests study in the spotlight at COFI virtual dialogues
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Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
More than 300 experts from over 50 countries are contributing to the Illuminating Hidden Harvests…
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“Better, faster, equitable, sustainable” – wheat research community partners join to kick off new breeding project
29.07.20More than 100 scientists, crop breeders, researchers, and representatives from funding and national …
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IITA scientists spearhead efforts to save East Africa’s potatoes from a new pest threat
29.07.20Scientists at CGIAR-IITA, working with the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (…
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Investments in agricultural development: quantifying the socio-political and climate-change risks
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Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Scientists have created a computer model that can estimate risks for agricultural development projec…
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Semantics and words matter for analyzing gender and social inclusivity in development projects
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Environmental health
The Agrobiodiversity Index and the Enhancing Sustainability Across Agricultural Systems of the Water…
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2020 State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World report: Rising hunger and COVID-19 present formidable challenges
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Food security
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Nutrition
By Khiem Nguyen Almost 690 million people went hungry around the world in 2019, an…
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Policy seminar: The impacts and legacy of IFPRI’s 2020 Vision Initiative
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Food security
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Nutrition
By Khiem Nguyen Launched in 1993 and recently concluded, IFPRI’s 2020 Vision Initiative was an o…
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Better dietary options for healthier children
27.07.20In rural Malawi, over 16,000 people, including young children, have benefited from ‘Care Groups’…
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West Africa: Smarter investments in small reservoirs needed
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Environmental health
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Food security
Small reservoirs allow West African farmers to irrigate their fields and water their livestock. They…
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CIP’s Andean Initiative takes flight
24.07.20A fascinating 90-minute international panel discussion this morning kicked off the International Pot…
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2020 Global Food Policy Report: Emerging challenges of building inclusive food systems in South Asia
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Gender equality
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Nutrition
By Rebika Laishram In South Asia, the COVID-19 pandemic has triggered the largest disruption of…
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Farmers’ experience and ecological knowledge proven valuable against land degradation in Mali
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Biodiversity
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Environmental health
A study by scientists from World Agroforestry (ICRAF) in Mopti, Segou and Sikasso, located in cent…
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Supporting smallholder farmers to better combat drought
23.07.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Researchers from the Cereal Systems Initiative for South Asia (CSISA) project have been exploring th…
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